Line Rushes

A good afternoon to you from the Mercedes-Benz Arena, Insiders. Like a charming San Francisco morning, the fog that enveloped the Canucks' skate rolled out and the Kings got in some work in advance of a pair of preseason games in Shanghai and Beijing. And then, like a dreary San Francisco afternoon,... Read More

Good afternoon from LAX, where the Kings, their partners, assembled media and league representatives have boarded the charter to Shanghai. Our landing is scheduled for 5:05 p.m. Monday, local time. (That’s 2:05 a.m. L.A. time.)
Before busing to LAX, the team practiced at Toyota Sports Center and ... Read More

Good afternoon from Toyota Sports Center, where Jesse Cohen, Jim Fox and I just taped the final Saturday Straight up of the 2016-17 season. Here's a big thank you to Mike Altieri, Steven Dorfman (aka Hoover), Jack Wilson, Ed Lewis, Josh Cooper, Sean O'Donnell, Jim and Jesse for participating in a re... Read More

Good morning from the skies above Southern California. We're expecting a flight of just under four and a half hours between LAX and Newark as the team heads east for games against the Islanders, Rangers, Devils and Hurricanes. Speaking of hurricanes, the rain was still coming down while we boarded o... Read More

Anze Kopitar has played alongside a stream of wingers this season, but that doesn’t matter a great deal to someone who isn’t particularly picky about any style of player he’d like to play with.
“Doesn’t matter,” said the Kings captain who has two goals and 11 points in 19 games.
Kopitar hasn’t... Read More

Good afternoon to you from a busy Toyota Sports Center. The Kings took the ice shortly before 10:30 a.m. and did not show any adjustments to their alignment per the color coding of their practice jerseys:
Yellow: King-Kopitar-Lewis
Blue: Pearson-Carter-Toffoli
Green: Brown-Dowd-Setoguchi
White... Read More

Good morning afternoon from El Segundo, Insiders. Most of the Kings took the ice well before 10:00 a.m. and remained on for the better part of an hour. In doing so, they aligned as such:
Yellow: Kopitar-Dowd-Brown
Blue: Pearson-Carter-Toffoli
White: Gaborik-Lewis-Setoguchi
Purple: King-Shore-N... Read More

Good afternoon from El Segundo, Insiders. Quite a busy morning around these parts. The lines at today's morning skate:
Pearson-Kopitar-Setoguchi
King-Purcell*-Toffoli
Lewis-Dowd-Brown
Clifford-Shore-Nolan
Martinez-Doughty
Muzzin-Gilbert
Forbort-Greene
-So you may have noticed that Jeff Carter is ... Read More

Good afternoon from the bowels of Xcel Energy Center, where both the Wild and Kings have concluded their morning skates and are in the process of returning to their residences and hotel rooms to catch some shuteye in advance of tonight's game (5:00 p.m. PT / FOX Sports West / FOX Sports Go / KABC 79... Read More

Good afternoon from Toyota Sports Center, where the Kings took part in a lengthy practice a day before their scheduled off-day. Per the new CBA, which isn't really "new" anymore, there are a certain number of mandated travel-free off-days that the players (and, once in a while, by extension, reporte... Read More